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¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

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Random encoding in compressed sensing MRI (CS-MRI) shows potential for faster scans but lacks general performance guarantees. Careful application-specific validation is crucial for CS-MRI development.

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Signal Processing
Applied Mathematics

Background:

Compressed sensing (CS) offers reduced magnetic resonance (MR) data acquisition time.
CS-MRI effectiveness relies on signal sparsity and favorable measurement properties.
Conventional Fourier encoding in MR often weakly satisfies CS requirements.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate random encoding for CS-MRI to emulate theoretical universal encoding schemes.
Evaluate random encoding's imaging properties against standard Fourier encoding.
Assess the theoretical performance guarantees of random encoding in CS-MRI.

Main Methods:

Employed tailored spatially-selective radio-frequency (RF) pulses for experimental random encoding.
Conducted simulation and experimental studies comparing random and Fourier encoding.
Analyzed the mathematical properties of random encoding for CS reconstruction.

Main Results:

Random encoding demonstrated potential to outperform conventional encoding in specific CS-MRI scenarios.
Random encoding frequently failed to meet theoretical conditions for stable CS reconstruction.
No universal theoretical performance guarantee exists for CS-MRI, with or without random encoding.

Conclusions:

Random encoding is a promising technique for CS-MRI but requires careful validation.
The theoretical underpinnings for stable CS-MRI reconstruction are not universally met.
CS-MRI methods necessitate application-specific development and rigorous testing.